My Journey To Create A Sustainable Investment Engine
I got my first paying job when I was 13 years old, picking tobacco through the local North Carolina cooperative extension. It paid $6.50 an hour in cash in 1981, roughly $20 an hour today. It was killer money for a young teenager living in a very affordable state at the time, so of course, I spent it all. That summer, I probably earned around $3,000. Had I saved half of…